A family name on West Pender Street, Downtown
The Hunters
In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses
The directories print four people named Hunter at three addresses in 1940, all on West Pender Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 118 other streets too, all listed on the Hunter name's own page.
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Where the Hunters lived
- 1
- 2
1256 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Ewen Hunter 1940
Next door in 1940: J G Rolston at 1240 and Mrs B I Hall at 1264. The block, door by door
- 3
1264 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Don Hunter, a fireman at the Union Steamship Company 1940
- William Hunter, a manager at G N News Stand 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs M M Smith at 1256. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a clerk, a fireman and a manager.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (3). Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.
The story, address by address
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists James Hunter at 435 West Pender Street, a clerk at the Niagara Hotel. The 1940 name section lists Ewen Hunter at 1256 West Pender Street. The 1940 name section lists Don Hunter at 1264 West Pender Street, a fireman at the Union Steamship Company, with William Hunter, a manager at G N News Stand.
Today
435 West Pender still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1256 West Pender and 1264 West Pender, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Hunter Jas clk Niagara Hotel435 West Pender, p. 290
- Hunter Ewen1256 West Pender, p. 289
- Hunter Don firmn USS1264 West Pender, p. 289
- Hunter Wm mgr G N News Stand1264 West Pender, p. 290
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Hunters
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Hunter name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under H. Want a name removed? Tell us.